Footboard for iron bedsteads.



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VSpeeoation of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 3,194. Serial No. 231,182.

To' all whom it may concern/.i

Be it known that L'Lnwrs O. BREKKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented c ertain new and Vuseful Improvements inFootboards for lron Bedsteads; and I-do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and-exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention relates to footboards for iron bedsteads, and has" for itsobject to improve the same in point of simplicity, convenience,

and eliiciency.

To the above ends the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

Avery general objection found to the use of iro'n bedsteads is the Jfactthat the clothes cannotvbe tucked securely at the foot of the mattressand thatV thereis no support at the Jfoot of the bed to assist inholding the clothes' and preventing the -eet from being kicked out fromvunder the covers.

A permanent footboard of the proper size and dimensions wouldbeobjectionable, because the clothes could not be thrown over the samein the day-time without giving the bed an awkward and unusualappearance. My improved Jootboard is so mounted that when 1t is desiredto use the same lit may be thrown upward into position projecting abovethe mattress and in the day-time or y when it is not reqluired may bequickly dropped down into a position below the upper portion of themattress. l

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the foot portion of aniron bedstead having one of my'improvediootboards applied thereto andshowing also portions of a bedspring and mattress, the said footboardbeing thrown upward in to an operative position. Fig. 2 is a viewcorresponding to Fig. 1, but showing the footboard dropped down into aninoperative position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the parts shown in Figs.1 and 2, some parts 'being broken away and the mattress being removed;and Fig. ,4 is a transverse section on the line :riot1 Fig. 3, someparts being removed. 4

The numeral 1 indicates the skeleton Jfoot member, andthe numeral 2 therails, of an iron bedstead of ordinary construction.

The numeral 3 indicates anordinary bedlspring; the numeral 4 an ordinarymattress,

both applied in the usual way. n

The numeral 5 indicates the ootboard, which at its ends is rigidlysecured to the rear ends of a pair of quite long arms 6,`preferablyformed by flat. straps of iron. The arms 6 are by the board 5 so spacedapart that they are adapted to embrace the sides of the spring 3 andmattress 4 and to directly overlie the side rails 2. said arms 6 arepivoted to clamping-heads 7, which are slotted, so that they are adaptedto be slippedonto the inturned flange of the rails 2, as best shown inFig; 4.' Set-screws 8 work through the lower prongs of the'heads 7 andimpinge against the anges of the rails 2 and rigidly, but detachably andadjustably, secure/said heads to said rails. To the arms 6 are pivotedshort legs 9, which when turned downward rest upon the rails 2, as shownin Fig. 1, and holdv the footboard 5 raised above the mattress in anoperative position.

When the footboard 5 is raised, as shown in Fig. 1, the bedclothes maybe tucked between the same and the foot of the mattress. When it isdesired to drop the footboard into an inoperative position, as shown inFig. 2,

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At their forward endthe legs 9 are turned into line with the arms 6, andthe said footboard will then of course drop into its inoperativeposition entirely out of the way and below the upper portion of themattress, so that the bedclothes may then be dropped over the saidootboard,

thereby entirely covering the same, leaving the bedclothes smooth at thefoot of the mattress. y v

' The footboard above described, while eX- vtremely simple and of smallcost, is eflicient What l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is as follows:

The combination with a bedstead and a` bed-spring supported thereby, ofa footboard said bedstead and the bed-spring andA the V5 arranged towork between the side rails of IIO foot of said bedstead, a air of arms6 rigidly p secured at their free en s to the intermediate portion ofthe ends of said footboard and pivoccupied by the hed-springssubstantially as otally attaohedrat their other ends to the described.1o side rails of said bedstead, and supporting- In` testimony whereof Iaffix mysignature Iegs 9 pivotally attached to the intermediate inpresence of two witnesses.

portion of said arms 6 and adapted to be LEWIS O. BREKKE.

y turned downward into engagement with the Witnesses:

side rails of the bedstead to support said foot- ROBERT C. MABEY. boardand lie outside of the horizontal place F. D. MERCHANT.

